Category Archives: Education

[NOTE: As I’ve explained elsewhere (for example, here and here), some of my “adventures in interdisciplinary land” came in response to requests from colleagues in other disciplines asking for help in dealing with an “historical” issue. Here is another example, … Continue reading →

[NOTE: In a previous post in this series, I saluted the two best teachers I’ve ever had, Miss Gertrude Weaver (high school) and Professor James Rabun (graduate school). In addition to deep knowledge of history and loads of energy and … Continue reading →

[NOTE: In a two-part series in The American Historian, David Arnold reviews a recent movement aimed at reforming the way history is taught in colleges and universities. An eighteen-year veteran of teaching history in a community college, Professor Arnold’s average … Continue reading →

A Review of J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. [NOTE: An inveterate reader of op-eds, I was well aware of this book months before I bought it. According to … Continue reading →

A Review of Joseph Madison Beck, My Father & Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. As the title suggests, this book begins with the notion that the story of … Continue reading →

A Review of Kristen Green, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle (Harper, 2015) [NOTE: One of the great joys of my last few years in the classroom was the … Continue reading →

[I have written before about my efforts to help My Old Graduate School (MOGS) show its graduate students that they could do more with a History PhD. than they might think. I tried to convince my depressingly eager audience that their post-PhD. refuge … Continue reading →

[NOTE: As a rule, I do not post at this blog about current American politics (for an exception, go here). I usually limit that sort of thing to my Facebook timeline, when I “say something” about an article that I’m … Continue reading →

[Note: I’ve spent my career studying, teaching, and reflecting on History, and, whenever those above me in the administrative food chain asked my opinion on some academic topic, I was not behindhand in responding. Here’s an example: as a follow-up to our opening faculty … Continue reading →

[NOTE: I launched Retired But Not Shy: Doing History After Leaving the Classroom a couple of weeks following my retirement, in May 2010, from nearly four decades teaching History in an Atlanta prep school. I really didn’t know what I was doing, but, as the … Continue reading →